The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug in the United States with a digital ingestion tracking system in an unprecedented step to ensure that patients with mental disorders take the medicine prescribed for them.Read more ...

CBS Local - The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first pill in the U.S. with a digital tracking system inside in an unprecedented step to ensure that patients with mental disorders take their medicine.
The drug, Abilify MyCite, was developed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The drug in Abilify was first approved by the FDA in 2002 to treat schizophrenia and issues associated with bipolar disorder. The ingestible sensor was initially approved for marketing in 2012.
New 'digital' pill tracks when patients take it pic.twitter.com/z4cH9ipNsl
- Reuters TV November 14, 2017
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